daveh
Lifetime Member
Posts: 4,696
|
Post by daveh on Aug 8, 2010 1:34:40 GMT -5
In France, everywhere you go there are water towers. I don't know it that resolves drought problems for them, but they do seem to store more water locally than anywhere else I have ever been. In the same way as with a doctor who can't diagnose that he, or she, is going down with an illness, it always seems strange to me when a country like the USA appears unable to protect itself from a drought such as you are having, Bob. One would expect water to be stored for a rainy day - or is that mixing my metaphors?
|
|
PeterW
Lifetime Member
Member has Passed
Posts: 3,804
|
Post by PeterW on Aug 8, 2010 18:32:35 GMT -5
Dave,
I think the water towers in France serve the same purpose as those we had in the UK until the water mains of Victorian times were replaced by larger diameter higher-pressure mains.
Water from low-pressure small diameter mains pipes is pumped to the top of the towers to give a head of water and give users at least a decent flow from their taps - faucets for those over the pond.
Without the towers the flow would be reduced to a dribble at peak user times.
PeterW
|
|
PeterW
Lifetime Member
Member has Passed
Posts: 3,804
|
Post by PeterW on Aug 8, 2010 18:38:52 GMT -5
Life gits teejus, don' it.
Cow's gone dry and the hens won't lay Well dried up last Saturday Troubles pile up day by day ... Now I'm gittin' dandruff.
Well, you've got to keep a sense of humour!
My favourite version was by Peter Lind Hayes around 1948.
PeterW
|
|
|
Post by vintageslrs on Aug 8, 2010 22:31:44 GMT -5
Galen--thanks for your kind thoughts. Just to update---in the last 4 days, we have had a couple of hours of light rain, one day. that was it. Not enough to help at all. So we are still buying bottled water, filling some empties from a spring about 12 miles away and bathing every night in a river about 10 miles away. But we are getting through it and almost getting used to it.......
Bob
|
|
|
Post by Rachel on Aug 9, 2010 3:51:53 GMT -5
Dave, I think the water towers in France serve the same purpose as those we had in the UK until the water mains of Victorian times were replaced by larger diameter higher-pressure mains. We still have plenty of water towers in Norfolk and Suffolk. As far as I know they are still in use. Anyway Bob, I hope you get some decent rain soon.
|
|
|
Post by vintageslrs on Aug 9, 2010 6:02:52 GMT -5
thank you Rachel! Appreciate your kind words.
Bob
|
|
|
Post by andys93integra on Aug 12, 2010 1:21:46 GMT -5
Maybe all the rain could head out your way from here in MN, last night we got like 5 inches of rain! Its been raining a ton here this year.
Andy
|
|
|
Post by vintageslrs on Aug 12, 2010 6:19:17 GMT -5
Hi Andy
5" of rain----Hmm.....that is probably too much. Most would run off and not reach the aquifer. But I will take about half that in a nice steady 2 day rain. So, send it on along! This hauling water in bottles and bathing in river is getting a little old.
Bob
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2010 15:15:00 GMT -5
Our drinking water in this part of the country is pumped from deep wells. Irrigation water for crops is stored in reservoirs behind dams in the mountains and fed to the farmland in the valley via canals. Without the reservoirs this area would revert to desert as the annual rainfall here is 10 inches or less. This is a distribution reservoir about a mile from our house. One hundred twenty years ago everything you can see here was desert. Wayne
|
|
|
Post by vintageslrs on Aug 13, 2010 5:54:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the info. and the photo Wayne. It is all rather amazing!
Bob
|
|
daveh
Lifetime Member
Posts: 4,696
|
Post by daveh on Aug 22, 2010 16:54:50 GMT -5
Bob,
How are things on the water front?
Dave.
|
|
|
Post by Randy on Aug 22, 2010 22:24:11 GMT -5
Rained 2 days straight here Bob, our ground was so dry it was cracked.
|
|
|
Post by vintageslrs on Aug 22, 2010 22:40:10 GMT -5
day 20 of hauling water and bathing in the river or showering at friend's homes. But......it rained lightly here almost all day!!! Yay!!! Now if we can get 2 additional days like this in a row---we may be out of the crisis. Praying hard for rain tonight!
Bob
|
|
|
Post by Rachel on Aug 23, 2010 3:41:46 GMT -5
Fingers crossed
|
|
daveh
Lifetime Member
Posts: 4,696
|
Post by daveh on Aug 23, 2010 3:45:57 GMT -5
Well, at least you are on your way.
|
|